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Dynamic RAID / Declustered RAID for Next DS8880

Distributed RAID or Declustered RAID or Dynamic RAID is especially popular with RAID-6 (what is now a default), and larger drive capacities.With larger drive capacities, the rebuild times in general grow a lot. Now this Distributed RAID not only d...
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

TDP for ERP - Support for Oracle 12c

TDP for ERP is not supported for Oracle 12c.Oracle 12c was certified for SAP on March 2015.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

nsdInlineWriteMax >8K

Dear developers Please enable feature nsdInlineWriteMax >8K for version 5.0.1.x with RDMA enabled. We are using it for small files writing. It's working for version 4.2.3.x Regards Alexander
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Recommision node / reverting decommission node command

Implementing a recommission node command to stop the decommission node process without restoring database.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

snapdiff AIX

Please re-add snapdiff functionality to the AIX dsmc. This exists in 7.1 but was dropped in 8.1.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

GUI for Spectrum Scale MMBACKUP function requested from MD Anderson Cancer Center

Spectrum Scale new RFE being pursued by Tram, Gabe, Jonathan and Raul, via Scale Case TS002279140 and Crit Sit AB1835.
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Add support for Subject Alternate Name in certificate request through the GUI.

Chrome 58 and above now checks for the presence of the Subject Alternate Name in the certificate. If it isn't found, the certificate is deemed to be insecure or broken. The new GUI certificate request feature should ask the user for the SAN name d...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

FILE class mount retention

Enable MOUNTRET on FILE class volumes.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Make mmsdrrestore command able to restore Zimon configuration files

The files /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonCollector.cfg and /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonSensors.cfg are needed for the pmcollector and pmsensors daemons.When a node is re-installed we use the mmsdrrestore command to restore the GPFS node configuration. Unfortunately ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale, dosen't access to the secondary Active Directory(AD), in spite of AD is Active-Active redundant configuration

*Re-Submitted from ID:134412Please cancel the request of 134412. We are facing to the following situation and our client strongly request to resolve this issue as soon as possible. We think that the function of SS about keeping session with AD sho...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration